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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 322 points 1 month ago (4 children)

He didn't expel all Russians, just the ones working for sanctioned Russian companies.

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AnIv3IogdUsebImO6i

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago

Important context and a good decision

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago (3 children)

That would've been great for them to clarify earlier XD

[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 26 points 1 month ago

That would've generated fewer clicks. Sensationalism is always more profitable.

[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, this is The Register. Not exactly a paragon of stellar reporting here.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

No, this is on Linus and the Linux Foundation

[–] BD89@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

RIGHT?? I was so disappointed until I learned that bit of context. Even the original article I read about it didn't mention it

[–] polar@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Good! So why the incendiary comments Linus made on Russians. It is so hard to say something like this: "I have to expel them from the project due to a US law forced us to do it. However, I had trust on them all these years and they contributed a lot to the project (that is why they were working here). Now, I am against the law because we should not discriminate people for the origin. Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it. Finally, this harms the entire Linux project because now makes it an "American"project rather than an global one. Sad times."

[–] michaelmrose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Have you noticed exactly how many Russians are bigots who support the mass murder of their neighbors?

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean there's probably a lot who don't, but they're busy firing missiles at civilians in Ukraine to get around their 15y work camp sentence.

[–] index@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 month ago

You are going to find bigots in every country. In US the biggest political figures right now are a fascist and a genocide supporter.

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

xz attack was an open source attack and it would be silly to assume that it was unique.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with xz

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think you understood their point.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In response to:

Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.

The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was "OPEN and many eyes are on it." Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, yep I didn't see that. Though definitely more eyes are on Linux than were on xz